How dark could it get:

Essentially, no recruits for next year signed as of the fall recruiting period.
Several incoming players ask to be released from their LOI
We go 12 /17,don't make the BEast toruney or NCAAs
Nancy personally selects Huggs replacement with her tool AD
Attendance at UC football averages 8k and B-ball averages 3-5k
Bearcat Nation is divided and both private and corporate sponsorship disappear
Fox stops carrying the games
And the kicker, somehow the wheels fall off the Bengals and their playoff chances evaporate this year.

We could have very long and dark winter of discontent.